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In Italy in theMiddle Ages, apieve (Italian pronunciation:[ˈpjɛːve],Corsican:[ˈpjɛvɛ]; Latin:plebe;pl.:pievi) was a rural church with abaptistery, upon which other churches without baptisteries depended.Pieve is also an Italian and Corsican term signifying the medieval ecclesiastical/administrative territory of its the mother church. It has thus become a common component of both place names and of the names of churches.
TheItalian wordpieve is descended fromLatinplebs which, after the expansion of Christianity in Italy, was applied to the community of baptized people. Manypievi began to appear in the 5th century, as Christianity expanded in the rural areas outside the main cities. In the 9th-10th centuries, they were often designed withbell towers.
